Bing Rewards popped up in Canada

[MrGoodSmith]

EDIT (2018/02/05): Microsoft/Bing Rewards have been officially available to Canadians since 2017. This is an old topic of how I was able to get into its portal 2 years earlier, although I was still unable to make use of any points I could accumulate.


I am in Canada, and something weird happened today. When I accessed the bing.com webpage I noticed a new badge on the top right corner of the page with the number 22 beside it, and when I clicked on it I found myself on the Bing Rewards web page. I was surprised and delighted, and thought that Microsoft has finally started making Bing Rewards available outside the US.

I checked Windows Central to see if there are any news related to this but found none, so I spent some time trying to explore the Bing Rewards portal, and I even completed the Welcome to Rewards tour to unlock one of the requirements towards the silver status.

Shortly after, I was no longer able to access Bing Rewards, with the usual message showing up: “Bing Rewards isn't available yet in your country or region.”

Any idea what could have happened here? This really feels very strange.

Update: I was able to get back to the Bing Rewards again. I captured some screenshots before it disappears

 

[Laura Knotek]

Re: Bing Rewards briefly popped up in Canada for few minutes

Were you using it on your smartphone? Were you roaming on a US tower?

 

[MrGoodSmith]

Re: Bing Rewards briefly popped up in Canada for few minutes

No, this was on my main PC, same ISP (Rogers) and nothing changed in my connection settings.

Edit: When I opened another browser window and tried to access the same Bing Rewards pages, I get the "not available" error back, and then I am no longer able to browse Bing Rewards even on the original browser window.

This might be a bug, and I can't yet figure how to replicate it.

 

[Laura Knotek]

That's interesting! Hopefully more members in Canada will try it and see what happens.

It would be really nice if Canada got Bing Rewards. :smile:

 

[MrGoodSmith]

Update: I am able to trigger Bing Rewards to show up if I access Windows Central forums first then open this link in a new tab within the same window: https://www.bing.com/rewards/unsupportedmarket , I see the badge and my points (first screenshot in my post which still says "not available in your region") but when I click on the badge I can go to the rewards portal normally.

But if I open a new browser window and try to access the link above I am completely blocked and can't even see the badge.

I hope other people in Canada and other parts of the world try to see if they can reach Bing Rewards as well.

When I try to update my profile in the Bing Rewards portal, there are no Canadian provinces available. I can only enter a US address.

 

[faalil]

I was able to loging as well.. i am from Sri lanka
http://forums.windowscentral.com/bing/334231-bing-rewards-outside-us-now-available.html#post2938763

 

[cndspec]

I was just searching about this same thing. We are in Canada as well and that little badge on the search screen got me looking into it as well. I did notice though that the registration page still only allows US addresses though.